Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The Useful Idea of Truth - Less Wrong

77 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2012 06:16PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 October 2012 09:38:04PM 7 points [-]

I've slightly edited the OP to say that Tarski "described" rather than "defined" truth - I wish I could include more to reflect this valid point (indeed Tarski's theorems on truth are a lot more complicated and so are surrounding issues, no language can contain its own truth-predicate, etc.), but I think it might be a distraction from the main text. Thank you for this comment though!